Appointments

• 2012: Full Professor of Chemical Biology & Chemical Genetics, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms- University Bonn, Germany
• 2010: Associate Professor of Chemical Biology & Chemical Genetics, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-University Bonn, Germany
• 2009: Reader of Translational Biology, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, United Kingdom
• 2009: Habilitation in Chemical Biology & Molecular Biomedicine, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms- University Bonn, Germany
• 2003: Co-founder of NascaCell Technologies AG, Munich, Germany
• 2001: Head of the Combinatorial Biotechnology Department NascaCell GmbH, Tutzing, Germany

 Awards & Honours

• 2024 ERC Advanced Grant, Acronym: IntraMAP
• 2017 Award for the outstanding start-up ‘Clickmer Systems’ at the BioRiver Boost
• 2015 Awarded 1st place at the ‘ZukunftErfinden NRW’ competition with the patent application ‘Aptathrombin’
• 2013: ERC Consolidator Grant, Acronym: OptoRibo
• 2012-2015: Coordinator of the EuroNanoMed Consortium “META”
• since 2012: Scientific Consultant, Caris Life Sciences, Phoenix, AZ, USA
• 2012: Offer of a Full Professor position of Chemical Biology at the Reiksuniversiteit Groningen, Netherlands (declined)
• 2011-2013: Visiting Professor to the University of Strathclyde, Institute of Pharmacy & Biological Sciences, Glasgow, United Kingdom
• 2011-2014: Scientific Consultant, Relitech/Renapta, Nijkerk, The Netherlands
• 2010: Scientific Advisor, Aptagen LLC, Jacobus, PA, USA

Editorial Affiliations

• G. Mayer (Ed.) Nucleic Acid Aptamers: Selection, Characterization, and Application. Methods in Molecular Biology Series, Springer Protocols, Vol.2570, 2023
• G. Mayer (Ed.) The Chemical Biology of Nucleic Acids. Jon Wiley & Sons Ltd., Chichester, United Kingdom, 2010.
• G. Mayer (Ed.) Nucleic acid and peptide aptamers. Methods in Molecular Biology Series, Springer Protocols, Vol. 535, 2009.